Example sentences of "[vb -s] that [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Overall responsibility for policy matters that affect the committees therefore lies with the Department of Trade and Industry . |
| 2 | Only in the past two decades ( he was 88 when he died last week ) has he spoken out in public , and in the liberal persuasion , on matters such as disarmament in Britain 's policy on nuclear weapons , matters that occupied a great deal of his professional life in government . |
| 3 | The tales of wrist-breaking fights with leviathan carp are legendary , and the ghostly , mist-shrouded waters that provide a backdrop for these real or imaginary scenes only add to the mystique that anglers love . |
| 4 | Such a strategy recognises a clear role for school health education but emphasises that achieving an impact on the minority of young people who choose to smoke will require more substantial and comprehensive interventions . |
| 5 | The high incidence of prostatic obstruction in this study emphasises that finding a raised creatinine concentration in any male necessitates careful palpation of the abdomen and prostate . |
| 6 | You see it in the neon strips that colour the city , the flashing lights on every corner . |
| 7 | The computer 's place in all this was in the control of either the mechanical discs or strips that carried the images of each character or , later on , in the generation and display of the characters themselves on a CRT . |
| 8 | One day in the early autumn of my lower-sixth-form year , when the damp leaves were already furring the grassy median strips that cleaved the dual carriageways surrounding Varndean Grammar , I saw a familiar figure from where I sat reading in the school library . |
| 9 | But tiresome authority deems that tickling a trout or two or felling the odd wild duck for the supper table is illegal . |
| 10 | It is the speed with which the situation develops that causes the problem . |
| 11 | Wood finishes that let the natural beauty of the grain show through are becoming more and more popular . |
| 12 | ‘ By this marriage ’ , says Walton , ‘ the good man was drawn from the tranquillity of his college , from that garden of piety , of peace and a sweet conversation , into the thorny wilderness of a busy world , into those corroding cares that attend a married priest . ’ |
| 13 | Jiminez de Arechaga concludes that recognising a third party 's assent through its actions shows that the third party is taking advantage of a pre-existing right , and is not concluding a collateral agreement . |
| 14 | Many of the Dwarf Holds that escaped the lava and destruction were engulfed by enemies of a different kind : Skaven , Goblins and Orcs . |
| 15 | The loving parent who tries to shield the child from harm to such an extent that he becomes timid and anxious can cause as many problems as the thoughtless and impatient adult who thinks that telling the child he is stupid will spur him on to greater efforts . |
| 16 | It is just that he no longer thinks that filling every cavity is one of them . |
| 17 | The doctor may exercise therapeutic privilege if he thinks that revealing a particular risk would be adverse to the patient 's health ( Canterbury v Spence ( 1972 ) 464 F 2d 772 ) . |
| 18 | The extent , however , to which that marks them off from what are typically thought of as more ‘ objective ’ features of the world in which we live depends on how far one thinks that has a character independent of any form of sentient experience . |
| 19 | In Luxembourg and Alsace , home of white wines like Riesling and Traminer and the fruit brandies Kirsch and Framboise , drinks that accompany the matelotes of freshwater fish and the hearty choucroute of cabbage with sausage , pork , goose — in this delicious country the pace of life after lunch is slower . |
| 20 | The plan has ten key priorities with specific action points that provide a framework for the Institute 's activities over each 12-month period . |
| 21 | In a series of experiments , balloons inflated sequentially throughout the gut identified trigger points that reproduced the abdominal pain in most cases of IBS . |
| 22 | This was a possibility with the Travelling Workshops Experiment which published a number of learning packages in various subject disciplines that included a variety of guides to the literature and guides to individual reference tools . |
| 23 | He was forced to withdraw his dissolution , though only after more than two years of controversy , during which time the Council had gone about its business and drafted a number of decrees that restrained the power of the papacy , and laid down reforms throughout the Church . |
| 24 | I discovered the dark secret of DeKalb in Illinois after arriving in search of the childhood influences that shaped the life of the world 's top cover girl . |
| 25 | Jakarta 's Governor Wiyogo Atmordarminto insists that to drive a becak is a degrading occupation , considering Indonesia 's level of development . |
| 26 | The metal clips that held the pages together had left smears of rust on the paper . |
| 27 | He nearly had the match purloined from him too because Bryan Beeson , who captained England 's world bronze-medal winning team , took the first two games with some astutely controlled slow drives that induced the 20-year-old England No.1 to make errors . |
| 28 | I may be being a bit paranoid , but if there is any bother , it will be the ones decked out as Leeds fans that get the trouble . |
| 29 | Soft pinks and browns are the summery eyeshadow shades that suit every woman , regardless of colouring . |
| 30 | The centre says that taking the guess work out of fishing will save the industry tens of millions of pounds every year . |